Storage news ticker – June 6
Arcserve announced the expansion of its OneXafe family of immutable data storage products with the OneXafe 4500 Series. Its capacity can be up to 216TB. It needs near-zero deployment...
The four storage horsemen of the epochalypse
Forgive the headline pun but apocalypse it is not. We have compared the storage growth rates for Dell, HPE, NetApp, and Pure Storage and spotted standout differences with HPE...
SCSI
SCSI - Small Computer Systems Interface pronounced as 'Scuzzee.' It is an interconnect standard for PCs and servers linking to peripheral devices, such as disk drives and SSDs, and...
Venture capitalists issue startup funding warning
Venture capitalists including Sequoia and Y Combinator are warning that an economic downturn is to threaten future fundraising, meaning start-ups should look to raise cash right now or conserve...
UALink
UALink - In May 2024 AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel, Meta, and Microsoft announced the formation of a group that will form a new industry standard, UALink (Ultra...
The possibilities of liquid memory
Researchers at nano- and digital technology R&D center IMEC are suggesting memory could become liquid in the future.
Engineering boffins at Belgium's IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre) presented a paper on...
Copilot
Copilot - A copilot is an application that uses modern AI and large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 to assist people with complex tasks. Microsoft first introduced the concept...
NVLink
NVLink - NVidia Link is a high speed, wire-based, serial, multi-lane, near-range communications link for Nvidia's GPUs.It has a mesh architecture with no central hub. An endpoint device can...
Three suppliers add ransomware capabilities to line-up
Cohesity, Nasuni, and HPE’s Zerto all revealed plans to add ransomware protection products and features to their line-ups this week.
Cohesity launched an in-cloud secure storage vault called FortKnox; Nasuni...
Storing 25 exabytes in a 2-inch Kenzan diamond wafer
Japanese researcher Makoto Kasu, at Saga University, and a precision diamond jewellery manufacturer have built a 2-inch diamond-coated wafer that can store, they claim, 25 exabytes of data using...
IPU
IPU - Infrastructure Processing Unit. This is an Intel marketing term for its DPU products. See DPU entry.
HAMR
HAMR - Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording technology which uses laser-produced heat to create smaller bits on disk drive platters than conventional magnetic recording (PMR), that are stable at room temperature,...